Launch your first batch
The roadmap is a build pipeline. Arm a batch and Maleus builds the queued versions back to back, unattended, while you do something else.
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The roadmap is a build pipeline. Arm a batch and Maleus builds the queued versions back to back, unattended, while you do something else.
Your workshop produced a queue of versions. The Roadmap tab is where you turn that queue into work.
You have two ways to go, and they are not a matter of taste. One version at a time if you want to see each result before the next starts. A batch if the plan is settled and you would rather come back to several finished versions.
Read the pipeline
Open the workshop that planned the work and pick its Roadmap tab.
The strip arms a batch. Under it, the version that would start now, and the ones behind it.
The tab is titled Build pipeline, and the line under it is the rule, not a suggestion: versions run one at a time, in order. A project has at most one version in development, and a workshop launches its drafts strictly in the order it planned them.
On the right, the header counts what is still queued and how many production units the workspace has left.
One version
The card at the top is the one that would start now. It shows Ready to start, its name, when it was drafted, and its estimated cost in production units.
Start version launches that one alone. Nothing else moves until you come back.
Or a batch
The strip above the card arms several at once.
Maleus then builds them back to back, unattended. You can close the tab; you are notified when the batch finishes. Each version the batch queues carries an auto badge under Up next.
While it runs, the strip becomes a banner: Batch in progress, the position in the queue, and the name of the version coming next.
Stop batch disarms the queue after a confirmation, and the wording matters: the version building now keeps going, the batch simply stops launching further ones. To stop what is currently building, cancel that version.
What it costs
A batch consumes production units for as long as it runs, and the estimate on the strip is what you are committing to. Before arming a large one, glance at the project's Production units page. See Track production unit consumption.
For a first batch, stop at two or three versions even if the roadmap has ten. You learn more from looking at what came back than from a queue that ran all night in a direction you would have corrected after the first one.
Next
When the batch finishes, you have versions to look at. See Review what came back.
Launch versions from the roadmap is the full reference for this screen, including drafts, editing a brief before it runs, and what happens when you cancel a queued version.